My E-Reader. Books Are Now Obsolete

and I do love books.

But seriously, my new kindle paperwhite is here. Free literature and discount reading plus content available online. A thousand books fit on the thing, and it fits in my large jacket pocket. I have Gullliver's Travels and about twenty other books on their now and they were all free. Reading it feels just like a real book but while those books would take up two shelves on a bookcase they now fit in my hand. I've already sold most of my paper books. I will still keep a few things on paperback (travel guides and some old books I have) but I think i will end up converting 95% of them to e-books before long.

Okay, enough of an ad for the thing, but this is the sort of technology that makes me happy. I live a bit of a nomadic lifestyle, and the idea that I can now fit all my movies, music and books on two or three small devices that fit in a backpack is amazing. I think I can now fit everything I own in a suitcase, a large backpack and maybe a small one too.

There is also something very liberating about getting rid of stuff. Like it's just one less thing we need to be responsible for. Or in this case getting one small item and getting rid of dozens of big heavy ones.

Anyway, if you read much, an e-reader is the way to go.